Youâve written the poemsânow what? Learn how to shape your manuscript into a compelling, cohesive collection that flows seamlessly from start to finish.
2 Sessions June 7, 2025 - June 14, 2025 10:00-12:00 pm PT Online Poetry
Class Catalog
Youâve written the poemsânow what? Learn how to shape your manuscript into a compelling, cohesive collection that flows seamlessly from start to finish.
2 Sessions June 7, 2025 - June 14, 2025 10:00-12:00 pm PT Online Poetry
Slip into the wolfâs skin and let fairy tales reshape your poetry in this punchy, generative Poem Plus Prompt session.
1 Session June 9, 2025 - June 9, 2025 5:00-6:00 pm PT Online Fiction
An ongoing playwriting group for writers who want to share work, learn craft, and connect with other writers.
1 Session June 12, 2025 - June 12, 2025 5:00-7:00 pm PT In Person Fiction
Explore the power of quiet, image-rich storytelling through Japanese poetry, fiction, and film. This immersive course invites close attention, cross-cultural reflection, and a deeper understanding of how stillness and suggestion can speak louder than explanation.
craft, close reading
4 Sessions June 16, 2025 - July 7, 2025 5:00-7:00 pm PT Online Fiction
Ready to send your poems into the world? This class demystifies the process so you can submit your poetry with confidence. You'll research journals, build supportive systems, and screen like an editorâall while writing new work along the way.
generative, close reading, professional development, publishing
6 Sessions July 1, 2025 - August 12, 2025 10:00-12:00 pm PT Online Poetry
Explore your connection to the natural world through writing rooted in presence and sensory experience. This generative class invites you to slow down, pay attention, and shape what you notice into language that blooms on the page.
generative, personal growth
4 Sessions July 7, 2025 - July 28, 2025 7:10-9:10 pm PT Online Fiction
Write through what feels impossible. In this generative fiction class, youâll explore how voice, structure, and storytelling can hold emotional weight, reflect rupture, and carry meaning through uncertainty. Craft fiction that responds to crisisâpersonal or globalâwith boldness, clarity, and form that fits the truth you need to tell.
generative, craft, close reading
8 Sessions July 7, 2025 - August 25, 2025 5:00-7:00 pm PT Online Fiction
Stuck in a cycle of procrastination? This supportive class helps you build a writing practice rooted in compassion, not pressure. Weâll reflect, learn, write together, and develop lasting habitsâand you'll finish a short piece youâve been avoiding.
generative, creative practice
8 Sessions July 7, 2025 - August 25, 2025 10:00-12:00 pm PT Online Fiction
Summer is for creative renewal. This joyful generative writing camp for adults invites you to embrace surprise, shake off perfectionism, and reconnect with your artistic self through prompts that draw on music, collage, ritual, and the senses. Writers, artists, and makers of all levels welcome.
generative, creative practice, personal growth
4 Sessions July 7, 2025 - July 31, 2025 6:00-8:00 pm PT In Person Poetry
Not sure what you want to write? This playful, genre-hopping class helps you explore fiction, poetry, humor, and moreâthrough weekly experiments that shake off perfectionism and reconnect you with curiosity and the fun of creative exploration.
generative, craft, close reading
6 Sessions July 8, 2025 - August 12, 2025 5:00-8:00 pm PT Online Fiction
Refine your prose from the inside out. In this fiction craft class, youâll explore how writing style and sentence-level choices shape a readerâs experience. Hone your voice and discover how rhythm, texture, emotion, and tension in syntax can bring your story to life.
generative, craft, close reading
4 Sessions July 8, 2025 - July 29, 2025 7:10-9:10 pm PT In Person Fiction
Reconnect with your body as a source of creative insight. This somatic-based writing class blends movement, reflection, and in-class writing to help you build trust in your intuition and develop a deeper, more sustainable relationship with your process.
cohort, creative practice
8 Sessions July 8, 2025 - September 2, 2025 5:00-7:00 pm PT In Person Fiction
Hook the right readers with a memoir overview that shines. This one-session class helps you craft a compelling, pitch-ready pageâbalancing voice, structure, and stakes to show agents and editors why your story matters now.
craft, close reading, professional development, publishing
1 Session July 9, 2025 - July 9, 2025 5:00-7:00 pm PT Online Fiction
Learn to write flash fiction that leaves your reader punch-drunk and speechless. This generative workshop explores compression, voice, and subtextâhelping you craft powerful stories in under 300 words that resonate far beyond their final line.
generative, craft, workshop
8 Sessions July 10, 2025 - August 28, 2025 5:00-7:00 pm PT Online Fiction
Turn your fragmentsâhalf-drafted scenes, vivid lines, or forgotten ideasâinto finished pieces. This supportive class helps you listen to what each piece wants to become and what it needs to get there. For writers of any genre.
craft, creative practice
6 Sessions July 10, 2025 - August 28, 2025 5:00-7:00 pm PT In Person Fiction
Play, explore, and let go of the need to get it right. This class draws from experimental literary traditionsâlike N+7, centos, and other solo and collaborative writing gamesâto help you rediscover movement, surprise, and the illicit joy of making something just to see where it leads.
generative, cohort, creative practice
6 Sessions July 12, 2025 - August 16, 2025 10:00-12:00 pm PT In Person Fiction
Scrivener can feel like a mazeâbut itâs also one of the best tools for organizing your drafts, notes, and ideas in one place. Learn the basics and build your project inside the program in this hands-on class.
creative practice
2 Sessions July 12, 2025 - July 19, 2025 10:00-12:00 pm PT Online Fiction
Stuck at the starting line? This supportive, low-pressure class helps you build momentum, finish a complete short story, and discover the joy of writing without perfectionism. Great for writers ready to stop stalling and start finishing.
generative, craft, creative practice
6 Sessions July 14, 2025 - August 18, 2025 5:00-7:00 pm PT Online Fiction
Explore zuihitsu, a Japanese form that blends list, memory, and reflection into intuitive, genre-defying writing. This generative class invites you to follow your thoughts, embrace fragments, and create beauty without tidy arcs or polished conclusions.
generative, creative practice, personal growth
6 Sessions July 15, 2025 - August 19, 2025 5:00-7:00 pm PT Online Nonfiction
Write from instinct and the subconscious. This generative poetry class invites you to follow memory, dream, and language into unexpected places. You'll dream journal and craft poems that emerge from intuition, vulnerability, and the deep ocean within.
generative, workshop, personal growth
8 Sessions July 16, 2025 - September 3, 2025 7:10-9:10 pm PT Online Poetry
How is truth shaped by culture, power, and storytelling? Through readings, discussion, and writing, youâll examine "truth" as a creative, philosophical, and political force in this part-analytic, part-generative course.
generative, close reading, cohort
4 Sessions July 16, 2025 - August 6, 2025 5:00-7:00 pm PT Online Fiction
Ready to publish your short work? This class breaks down the submission process with practical tools, personalized strategy, and clear guidanceâso you can send your writing out with confidence and a plan that fits you.
professional development, publishing
2 Sessions July 19, 2025 - July 26, 2025 1:10-3:10 pm PT Online Fiction
Discover the power of small stories. This class explores flash nonfictionâpersonal essays under 1,000 wordsâwith guided prompts, discussion, and craft techniques to help you write with clarity, depth, and emotional impact in a compressed form.Â
generative, craft, close reading
1 Session July 19, 2025 - July 19, 2025 1:10-4:10 pm PT Online Fiction
Learn to turn your funniest ideas into sharp, publishable humor pieces. This crash course covers structure, voice, and punchlinesâhelping you draft and shape short humor thatâs smart, surprising, and submission-ready. No comedy experience required.
generative, craft, close reading, workshop
4 Sessions July 21, 2025 - August 11, 2025 5:00-7:00 pm PT Online Fiction
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